From: "Campbell, Rolf [SKY:1U32:EXCH]" <moscoop AT americasm01 DOT nt DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Uptime and entropy in DOS
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 10:45:37 -0500
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Damian Yerrick wrote:

> BSD random() seems to use the Apple RNG
>   x = (x * 16807) % ((2 << 31) - 1);
> to play with the seed.

    I believe that algorithm is not very good at making random numbers.  If
you use it to generate (x,y,z) triples and plot them, every point will lie on
one of 11 planes.  There are better algorithms out there.

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(\/) Rolf Campbell (\/)